Hailstorm at Poona on 16th March 1954

Authors

  • S.P. VENKTESHWARAN
  • S.S. RAMAKRISHNAN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v5i4.4900

Keywords:

Hailstorm, pre-monsoon months, Poona

Abstract

Hailstorms at Poona have been practically confined to the pre-monsoon months of March to Mayr , when they may occur occasionally in some years in the afternoons. A fairly severe hailstorm occurred at Poonn at ;,bout 1800 1ST on 16 March 1954. The storm came over the station from the north. From enquiries made from parties at different points in the neighborhoods, it was ascertained that  the hail was experienced over a strip about 6 miles in the N·S direction and about 4 miles in the E-W direction. The Meteorological Office was about 2 miles to the south of the central region . The maximum size of hail reported was ahout 3/4" diameter in the Meteorological Office at Poona and in the Central Agricultural Meteorlogical Obsevartory, about half a mile to the north, the most predominant size Was about half inch in diameter.

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Published

01-10-1954

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S. . VENKTESHWARAN and S. . RAMAKRISHNAN, “Hailstorm at Poona on 16th March 1954”, MAUSAM, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 343–348, Oct. 1954.

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Vol. 5 No. 4 (1954): MAUSAM

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Shorter Contribution

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